Peter Singer-Animal Liberation

Totheanimalwelfaremovement,too,mustgothecreditfor startingthefightagainstcrueltytochildren.In 1874 Henry Bergh,thepioneeroftheAm ...

forsport,to satisfytheircuriosity,to beautifytheirbodies, andtopleasetheirpalates.Humanbeingsalsokillmembers oftheirownspeciesfo ...

wedonotconsiderthattheanimalmighthaveaspousewho willsufferfromthesuddenabsenceofthedeadorcaptured animal.Inasimilarwayweknowthat ...

Consideringhowfartheknowledgeofthegeneralpubliclags behindthemostrecentfindingsofzoologistsandethologists who have spent months ...

Everyreaderofthis book,ontheotherhand,iscapableof making a moral choice on this matter. We cannot evade ourresponsibilityforourc ...

judgmentindecidingwhentofollownature.ForallIknow, waris“natural”tohumanbeings—itcertainlyseemstohave beena preoccupationfor many ...

thousandwhalesarestillbeingkilledbyhumanhunterseach year, not to mention the estimated 125,000 dolphins who drown annually in th ...

individualsmayhavebeeninpointofunnecessarycruelty, practisedinthis business;that,whetherthegeneral stateof subordinationhere,whi ...

Farmers willturn to othertypes of farming,and the giant corporations will investtheir capital elsewhere. The result will be that ...

pleasantlifeistoconferonthatbeingabenefit?Todenythis, wewouldneedtoexplainwhythetwocasesaredifferent,and I cannot find a satisfa ...

philosophicalandpractical difficulties,asIandothershave indicated elsewhere.^22 Onapurelypracticallevel,onecansaythis:killingani ...

peoplewhotakecaretoeatonlymeatthatcomesfromsuch animals—butIsuspectthatunlesstheyliveonafarmwhere theycanlookaftertheirownanimal ...

theycanpointoutthat animalskilled forfood donot live without suffering either. Even the bullfight enthusiast can arguethatthedea ...

animals—bywhichwecandeterminewhichofourpractices affectingnonhumananimalsarejustifiableandwhicharenot. Byapplyingthisprincipleto ...

Belts,bags,andothergoodsoncemadeofleatherarenow easily found in other materials. Other problems that used to daunt the most adva ...

aboutsuchdetailsaswhetherthecakeyouareofferedata party was made with a factory farm egg. Wearestillalongwayfromthepointatwhichit ...

consideration at all is given to the interests of the “pests”—theveryword“pest”seemstoexcludeanyconcern fortheanimalsthemselves. ...

animal in question may be, hunters must periodically be allowed to “harvest” theexcess population—this allegedly beingintheinter ...

pain,whiletheplantsarenot.Atthispointsomeoneisbound to ask: “How do we know that plants do not suffer?” Thisobjectionmayarisefro ...

imaginewhyspeciesthatareincapableofmovingawayfrom asourceofpainorusingtheperceptionofpaintoavoiddeath in anyotherway shouldhavee ...